Elisa Guelpa

Nowadays, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase with the consequent climate changes. Energy consumption of buildings strongly affects atmospheric pollution, therefore for a sustainable development it is necessary to adopt energy efficiency policies combined with low-carbon technologies. In particular, the use of district heating (DH) has environmental and economic advantages in energy production and distribution for space heating consumption.

In urban areas, district heating (DH) represents a valuable technology for providing sanitary water and house heating to buildings, because of its technical and economic strengths and its potentials on reduction of pollutant emissions. In large towns, DH is often an evolving structure. Connection of additional buildings, without any modifications in the existing network, is a frequent option to be considered to avoid further investment costs.